Below are samples of the databases provided by other schools to review. The College will be purchasing the recommended databases to link to the school web page. Please give us some feedback on their value.
With over 73,000 articles, **Encyclopædia Britannica** //Online School Edition// is one of the most complete and accurate information sources in the world. It contains both short and book-length articles on every subject. Your search results can come from four encyclopedias, magazine articles, the Internet Guide, and Videos & Media. All results are ordered by relevance: how closely the content matches your search word(s).
The newspaper index //**Echo**// is available on-line via this link and from the Library Folder on the School Network. The Issue Outlines compiled by Echo are also a very useful resource. Username: fountaingate, Password: issues
EbscoHost - The Australian and NZ Reference Centre is an online index of journals and newspapers. A great deal of the content is available in full-text. It does provide full-text of the The Age, The Australian and The Herald-Sun is updated weekly.
**The Age 'True to Print' Digital Edition** delivers an identical replica of The Age. It contains every page, article, photo, table, advertisement, cartoon published in the the News, Business and Sport sections. Delivered via a web browser, it can be searched and read in image or text view. The Age “True to Print” content is updated monthly.
McGraw Hill's AccessScience has on-line articles, research updates, scientific definitions, biographies of scientists, illustrations and graphics, animations and bibliographies, content contributed by 5000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners, the latest news in science and technology and includes a weekly Questions and Answers update.
ClickView is a digitised video library available across the School Network. It provides access to approximately 1,000 titles which can be searched by category or keyword. ClickView also enables a movie clip to be exported in a format that can be inserted easily into Powerpoint or Word.
The Age on-line via The Age Schools Archive . You can use the Word search or browse the selected issues via this link.
Victoria's Virtual Library enables students to access Gulliver which is a collection of databases that has over 6000 full-text journals, books, newspapers and pictures. All are available at nearly every public library branch throughout Victoria and all of which are now available for Victorian public library members to use at home! Remember to use your public library card barcode
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Description
Echo
The newspaper index Echo is available on-line via this link and from the Library Folder on the School Network. The Issue Outlines compiled by Echo are also a very useful resource. (
Print Newspapers - The Age, Herald-Sun, The Australian
The Library holds a copy of the three daily newspapers Age, Herald Sun, and Australian in print form for a period of 12 months. These can be requested by completing a request slip for the specific newspaper(s) you require at the Enquiry Desk.
The Age 'True to Print' Digital Edition
**The Age 'True to Print' Digital Edition** delivers an identical replica of The Age. It contains every page, article, photo, table, advertisement, cartoon published in the the News, Business and Sport sections. Delivered via a web browser, it can be searched and read in image or text view. The Age “True to Print” content is updated monthly.
Age on CD-ROM
The previous years' Age on CD ROM,
The Age On-line
The Age Education Web-site is another excellent resource. Melbourne High School students and staff can access the full-text of the last 3 months of The Age on-line via The Age Schools Archive . You can use the Word search or browse the selected issues via this link.(Select Melbourne High, Password: owv109) The Age Issues site is also excellent and enables access to full-text, images and mulitimedia on the selected issues.
EbscoHost - Australian and NZ Reference Centre
EbscoHost - The Australian and NZ Reference Centre is an online index of journals and newspapers. A great deal of the content is available in full-text. It does provide full-text of the The Age, The Australian and The Herald-Sun is updated weekly. (User ID: s4154113, Password: student)
Guidelines
Guidelines in an index to journals and is integrated into the Library catalogue, therefore a catalogue search also searches Guidelines . Melbourne High School can usually provide access to the required journal via our very extensive collection. If not, the school belongs to a periodical network and can usually access the required article via this means, within 24 hours.
Victoria's Virtual Library Remember to use your public library card barcode
Victoria's Virtual Library enables students to access Gulliver which is a collection of databases that has over 6000 full-text journals, books, newspapers and pictures. All are available at nearly every public library branch throughout Victoria and all of which are now available for Victorian public library members to use at home!
Newspapers Online
Links to the major newspaper sites - The Age, The Australian and the Herald-Sun. The Australian and Herald-Sun do not provide any free access to their full-text archive. The Age provides access to the last 3 months in full-text to Melbourne High School students and staff via The Age Schools Archive .
Magazines Online
A number of journals provide some free full-text material. Click on this link to view some of these sites. In general, journals are more likely to provide some of their older content free of charge - but there are a few electronic journals which are available.
NEWSPAPERS ONLINE:
Remember that the library holds copies of the Age ,the Herald Sun and the Australian for 12 months. We also have the Age on CD ROM available in the Library Folder on the School Network.
Username: fountaingate, Password: issues
Remember to use your public library card barcode
Current Issues
The Age Issues site is also excellent and enables access to full-text, images and mulitimedia on the selected issues.
Remember to use your public library card barcode
Remember that the library holds copies of the Age ,the Herald Sun and the Australian for 12 months. We also have the Age on CD ROM available in the Library Folder on the School Network.